Whether they are toddlers or teens, reading with your children will enhance their education while strengthening your connections as a family. Short on ideas for motivating your kids to pick up a book? Never fear, with the following ideas, nurturing your children's journey into a world of wonder, exploration and information is as easy as ABC. | Feb. 26, 2014»Read Full Article

Time Warner Cable has announced that a 40% increase in retransmission consent fees is forcing the company to add "a new line item called the Broadcast TV fee" onto customer bills to "make customers more aware of these rising costs."

The broadcast TV fee for new or non-promotional video customers is $2.25, and represents a 6% increase. However, according to Time Warner, 70% of its customers won't see any immediate boost because they are in a promotional package. | Feb. 26, 2014»Read Full Blog Post(31)

Milwaukee's favorite warm-weather pastime gets an early start Saturday for the second annual Eastside Music Tour, with 86 acts occupying 32 businesses on and around E. Brady St. | Feb. 26, 2014»Read Full Article

Earlier this month, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a feature on 10 Wisconsin bands to watch, profiling some of the most talented emerging artists in the state.

Eastside Music Tour-goers can watch six of those acts Saturday. Four of them will appear at a Wisconsin Bands to Watch showcase at the Tap Milwaukee Stage at Club Brady, 1339 E. Brady St. | Feb. 26, 2014»Read Full Article

Jim DeVita as the Poet in the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s production of “An Iliad.”

American Players Theatre standout Jim DeVita, now 53, freely admits that actors, like the rest of us, have stretches during which they wonder why they bother — and whether anyone out there is listening or cares.

But imagine being dogged by this sense of futility for 3,000 years. That's the situation confronting the bone-weary Poet in "An Iliad," a powerful, one-actor adaptation of Homer's poem by director Lisa Peterson and actor Denis O'Hare. | Feb. 26, 2014»Read Full Article

Reading John Updike's early stories -- today's story is the 24th in the first volume of the LOA's collection -- has made me marvel at how well Updike wrote in his 20s. But this project has also made me wonder about the standards for publishing fiction at The New Yorker in 1950s. "Dear Alexandros," published Oct. 31, 1959 in The New Yorker is so slight I wonder why the magazine published it. Did it need a short short story to fill a hole? Was the competition weak? | Feb. 26, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

The first hip-hop act to win the Grammy for album of the year — for 2003's seminal smash "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" — Outkast announced in January that it would get back together after a seven-year hiatus to headline 40 festivals in honor of its 20th anniversary, although Big Boi recently revealed that a new album is not in the works. | Feb. 26, 2014»Read Full Article(10)